The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1887-09-02
BASEBALL NOTES.

BASEBALL NOTES.
Chicago is going to sign Petit, of Water
bury, a catcher
Right Fielder Pohcmus, of the indianapolis
team, has been laid off.
Fogerty is gradually reaching the high
water mark in batting.
Charles Daniels, manager of the Hartfords,
will resume his old position as umpire.
The Hartfords forfeit $3.50 by disbanding.
1t would have cost pretty nearly $500 to
have kept on.
Hecker's fielding average at first base, $50,
is the best average held by any player i'll the
Louisville team.
Buffalo has filed an application to fill the
first vacancy in tho American association;
ditto Milwaukee.
sJimmy" Peoples, the winning catcher of
the Brooklyns, is doing excellent work at first
base for that team.
Pitcher Mccormick has lost more games
than any other league pitcher this season, the
number being seventeen.
The New Yorks have tried twenty-one, De-
troits twenty, Phild,lephias nineteen, III
dianapolis eighteen players this season.
Pitcher Shreve, of the Baltimores, and
Johnson, the Hartford right fielder, have
been signed by Manager FOCAL, of the Indian
apolis team.
Manager Schnielz is already ut work trying
to arrange fall exhibition games for Cincin-
nati with Detroit, Chicago, New York, Bos-
ton and the other league clubs
John Ward, of the New York club has
been spoken of in connection with the Alneri-
can association presidency. He would doubt
less be good man for the office.
Tho Lincoln (Neb) team contains three of
the men who were blacklisted in 1854 for
jumping to the Union association. They are
Dolan, Dave Rowe and "Orator" Shaeffer.
Hatfield, the Hoboken lad whom Manager
Spence, of the Portands, scooped up, hus
stolen 100 bases He also leads the New Eng
land team in run getting, having scored 113
/ President Hart, of the New Orleans associ
alton, believes the Southern league will be
stronger next season than this, and that all
the large southern cities will be in except Sa-
vannah
The base running of the Kentucky club is
led by Pete Browning, who has Sc to his
credit. The Gladiator has also made 1853
base hits this season, which tops the Associa-
ton record.
The Louisville batteries are dubbed as fol-
lows: Hecker and Cook, the "head battery;''
Chamberlain and Cross, the scientific bat
tery;;" and Ramsey and Kerirs, the ''dyna-
mite battery"
Since Hughes, of the Newarlls, was hit on
the head by a pitched ball, his effectiveness
as pitcher has been greatly impaired, and
the club has been meeting with constant de-
feat ever since.
Pitcher Shaw, of the Jersey City club, re-
sembles his namesake of the league. If
allowed good rest he pitches phenomenal
game, but if put in three times week he is
batted numerically.
The ministers Of Brooklyn take great in
terest in baseball and many of the most prom
inent divines can daily be seen at the games
in that city. Most of them are hard losers
| They want to see the Brooklyns win all the
time.
Johnny Ward ranks pretty well as base
runner. He can do about eleven seconds.
His skill in base running lies in good starts
and Sides About four years ago Ward,
while in California, beat Tom Brown in Il
race. Brown, however, was not running fnst
then.
Jersey City people feel very proud OF the
members of the emi-professional club which
existed there i'll 1885. Hughes is making n
great record for himself with Newark Cnff
was lately with New York. Burns, who is
now out of the baseball profession, played
first base with Baltimore Mattimore il NJ,
New York and Fields with Pittsburg
President Stern, Of the Cleveland c:ni..
rays that crowds at the American association
grounds are officially overestnate'l. He says
that on Decoration day in Baltimore. white
the official count given out was 5000 people,
the Cincinnati club was paid its share of re-
cepts on the basis of Il few over 1000 admis-
sions. Here is a discrepancy of over 100 per
| cent.